CNN Las Vegas, NV Democratic debate @9pm ET **live commentary thread**

[Crumpets]

Chafee didn't kill his chances. They were already dead.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Chaffee is....wow.

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Chafee is dead.

[RINO Tom]

I like Chafee (if not his politics)

[zs4321]

chafee is the worst debater ever

[Mr. Smith]

Love Webb calling Anderson out, decent response too.

Sanders was best though on this

Chafee probably won't be speaking again.

And Clinton...who are you kidding?

Okay I'm out.

[Orthogonian Society Treasurer]

"College degrees are worthless now, therefore we should make college free so that more people can get college degees."

[Higgs]

Chafee better start his libertarian bid soon

[Bigby]

I think this debate has strengthened the unlikeliness of me voting Democrat.

[MisSkeptic]

Chafee will be the first to drop out. Mark my prediction!

[Likely Voter]

If Chafee had any support his 'it was my first day' would wipe it out

[anvi]

"I voted for the wrong bill because my father died. I was sad." - Lincoln Chaffee

Holy cow.  That one's gotta go in the pathetically bad answer hall of fame.

[angus]

Love Webb calling Anderson out...

agreed.

[Bigby]

Hillary Clinton once again avoids answering the actual question. Why are politicians so willing to adhere to their stereotypes as politicians?

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

This is a freaking disaster upon disaster...and I thought the GOP debates were bad..

[Lyin' Steve]

I can't wait for the speaking time and question aggregations after this.

I think Sanders and Clinton have gotten nearly every question and 85% of the speaking time.

Here's a chart of number of questions as of a few minutes ago. http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/first-democratic-debate-election-2016/?#livepress-update-20182501

I absolutely do not believe that.  The idiots at 538 must not be counting the follow-up questions, i.e. "with all due respect Senator Clinton, aren't you terrible, for real?"  either that or they're counting every time Anderson cuts off Webb as a question.

[Pyro]

Hillary: "I will focus on helping people who need it the most"
Yeah, screw everyone else who makes more than the lowest possible income.

[RINO Tom]

Middle class, middle class, middle class, middle class, Republicans are rich.

This is boring.

[Lyin' Steve]

Trump's tweets are so boring

[Marokai Backbeat]

Wow f**k off at the phrasing of that immigration question.

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Sanders handled that immigration question well.

[DavidB.]

Not watching it, but politicians who talk about the middle class are generally tiresome and annoying.

[RINO Tom]

Not watching it, but politicians who talk about the middle class are generally tiresome and annoying.

Yeah: Democrats.

[#TheShadowyAbyss]

I agree I agree I agree those two words must be the most spoken words at this debate...

[Torie]

This debate reminds me why I have not totally cut my ties to the Pub party. We want it all, and we want it now, and the rich and financiers can pay for it all. It's just so simple really.

And the candidates agree mostly on everything, so none of the well, yes, but, stuff, gets aired at all. And Anderson Cooper is not a policy wonk, or has done much homework on that apparently, as opposed to who said what in the past to whom. So he isn't serving in that role, in lieu of the candidates doing it.